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A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), [ 1 ] and Asser 's Life of King ...
The House of Wessex then briefly regained power under Æthelred's son Edward the Confessor, but lost it after the Confessor's reign, with the Norman Conquest in 1066. All kings of England since William II have been descended from the House of Wessex through William the Conqueror 's wife Matilda of Flanders , who was a descendant of Alfred the ...
Family tree of English monarchs; Family tree of British monarchs; List of office holders of the United Kingdom and predecessor states. List of British monarchs; Lists of monarchs in the British Isles; List of Irish monarchs; List of monarchs of the British Isles by cause of death; List of monarchs of Wessex, AD 519 to 927; List of rulers of ...
The House of Wessex family tree precedes this family tree and the family tree of the British royal family follows it. (see List_of_monarchs_of_Wessex) As to the medieval histories of Scotland and Wales: The family tree of Scottish monarchs covers the same period in Scotland and, equally as shown, directly precedes the family tree of the British ...
A continuation of the tree into the 10th and 11th centuries can be found at English monarchs family tree. The tree is largely based on the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List (reproduced in several forms, including as a preface to the [B] manuscript of the Chronicle), [ 1 ] and Asser 's Life of King ...
See Family tree of English monarchs, Family tree of Scottish monarchs, and Family tree of Welsh monarchs. This also includes England, Scotland and Wales; all part of the United Kingdom as well as the French Norman invasion. For a simplified view, see: Family tree of British monarchs.
He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as "North Wessex". [citation needed] In the book and television series The Last Kingdom, Wessex is the primary setting, focusing on the rule of Alfred the Great and the war against the Vikings. [47] Wessex remains a common term for the ...
The name Cynric has an ostensibly straightforward Old English etymology meaning "Kin-ruler". However, this name's normal Old English form is Cyneric.As some scholars have proposed that both his predecessor, Cerdic, and successor, Ceawlin, had Celtic names, [5] an alternative etymology has been postulated, deriving the name from Brittonic "Cunorix", meaning "Hound-king" (which developed into ...